Navigate the modern meet market with these tips on finding your match in the 2010s

Dating After Divorce

Dating After Divorce

If you’re hitting the dating scene for the first time in decades, you might feel like a fish out of water. Dating these days takes a different skill set, from learning to text to honing your Google prowess, and you might be wishing for a marketing degree when you draft your online dating profile. Below, experts and divorced women tell you what to look out for as you embark on this new journey.

1. Everyone is a detective.

1. Everyone is a detective.

Chances are, you’ll Google your date before you meet. “Dating is scary. You don’t know the potential dangers, and Google is a good source,” says Jackie Pilossoph, founder of the blog Divorced Girl Smiling and author of divorce novels such as Free Gift With Purchase. If you find a red flag, feel free to bow out of the date. If you go through with meeting, don’t rattle off everything you’ve learned about him; it can make him uncomfortable and prevent organic discussion. But if he brings up something you already discovered, fess up. “It breaks the ice,” Pilossoph says. “With most people, you’ll end up laughing about it together.”